Campus diversity important predictor of interracial friendships
Wednesday, August 27, 2008 - 14:42
in Psychology & Sociology
One of the hopes of having diverse campus environments is that the daily interaction with students from different backgrounds will promote interracial understanding and friendship. A new study in the journal Social Science Quarterly found that campus racial and ethnic diversity is important in predicting friendship heterogeneity, and that minorities have higher predicted friendship diversity than whites.